I had AMANDA installed as an RPM through synaptic, so I'm sure it had all
kinds of default options. I tried to just change the dump user wherever I
could find it.  I noticed that some apps were still running as "amanda" so I
uninstalled the RPM and manually compiled  instead with the user=backup.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org]On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 11:31 AM
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: all estimate failed


On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:04:57AM -0400, LaValley, Brian E wrote:
> I am all set now. Thanks for all the ideas. It turned out to be one of the
> helper programs running as "amanda" instead of "backup" as a username.
> "amanda" is a regular user on my systems.  I just completed my first
AMANDA
> backup.
> 

Was that due to a manual install rather than the "make install"
done as root with programs built by you from the amanda sources?
If the latter, some part of the install procedure needs to be
checked.  But I suspect that is not the case.

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